June 12, 2000 Apache Guide: Introduction to Server Side Includes By Rich Bowen
It is formatted like an HTML comment, so if you don't have SSI correctly
enabled, the browser will ignore it, but it will still be visible in the HTML
source. If you have SSI correctly configured, the directive will be replaced
with the results of the directive.
The element can be one of a number of things, and we'll talk some more about
most of these in the next installment of this series. For now, here are some
examples of what you can do with SSI.
The echo element just spits out the value of a variable. There
are a number of standard variables, which include the whole set of environment
variables that are available to CGI programs. Also, you can define your own
variables with the set element.
If you don't like the format in which the date gets printed, you can use the
config element, with a timefmt attribute, to modify
that formatting.
And, of course, there are a variety of other things that we can do with SSI.
I need to leave something to talk about next week. So, next week, we'll have a
lot more examples, and talk about some of the more involved things that you
will be able to do with SSI.
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